.cmd file: echo escape character ^ appears in output

[daddydave]

I'm trying to echo literal > characters and % characters, and I understand I can escape them with ^ characters, but for some reason the ^ characters appear in the output also. Yet if I remove them, the %TMP% variable is evaluated immediately. In other words the output I want, strangely enough, is

"UninstallString"="cmd /c echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00>%TMP%\BlahBlah.reg

I am not trying to create BlahBlah.reg at this time, I am echoing to screen what will eventually be echoed to a different reg file to be merged with the Registry so that BlahBlah.reg can be created at a later time. The syntax is off a bit for the registry, but right now I am just worried about the syntax for the .cmd file

What I get is:

C:\>@echo "UninstallString"="cmd /c echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00^>^
	%TMP^%\BlahBlah.reg
	"UninstallString"="cmd /c echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00^>^%TMP^%\Bla
	hBlah.reg

	C:\>@echo "UninstallString"="cmd /c echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00>^%
	TMP^%\BlahBlah.reg
	"UninstallString"="cmd /c echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00>^%TMP^%\Blah
	Blah.reg

	C:\>@echo "UninstallString"="cmd /c echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00>%T
	MP%\BlahBlah.reg
	"UninstallString"="cmd /c echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00>C:\DOCUME~1\
	ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\BlahBlah.reg

See how the ^ echoes in the output even though I am just using it to keep %TMP% from evaluating during the run of the batch file as it does in the last example above.

Edited January 24, 2007 by daddydave

[Yzöwl]

One problem is that your outputting from the console and not a batch, you're testing for a batch run so use a batch for the testing!

Also the escape character for the percent is another percent:

Since you missed a double quote from your examples, I will give you a couple of solutions just in case I've guessed incorrectly!

@ECHO/"UninstallString"="%%COMSPEC%% /c ECHO/Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 >%%TMP%%\BlahBlah.reg"

@ECHO/"UninstallString"="%%COMSPEC%% /c ECHO/Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00"^>%%TMP%%\BlahBlah.reg

[daddydave]

Thanks, Yzöwl, that fixes it!

And you're right, I hadn't considered that running it from the console was distorting my output.

Edited January 24, 2007 by daddydave